FWIW, a simple transaction of payment for sex among consenting adults legally constitutes 'sex-trafficking'.  It used to not be that way.  It used to be that any form of human 'trafficking' necessarily involved involuntary participation.  There may indeed be real fuckers and real victims involved in this story; but I can't help but roll my eyes at the headline and think about how the contemporary abuse of the term 'trafficking' has done such a disservice to actual victims - whether in this case or elsewhere.